What I Heard and Saw at the Tokyo Palace

The Best Thing I Saw at ASCO

The 2017 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) annual meeting was a practice-changing event sure to excite even the most dispassionate among us. In my own field of gastrointestinal oncology, there were seismic alterations in the way many will now approach adjuvant therapy in colorectal and biliary tract cancers. And as we enter the brave newworld of histology agnosticism, even Kuhn would...

"I heard it through the grapevine...".

Word of mouth (WOM) has always been one of the most credible and influential sources of information for a consumer. With the advent of the Internet, new mediums of communication, such as blogs and social networking sites, have opened up, allowing more consumers to gather WOM information more easily than ever before. In this study, I examine the usefulness of online WOM, particularly from blogs ...

What You See Is What I Saw: Applications of Stateless Client Systems in Asynchronous CSCW

Thin-client systems are becoming favourable in today’s computing, as today’s working environment tends to be mobile and ubiquitous. Stateless-client systems not only conform to the thin-client paradigm, but also extend to free the client completely from preserving any system state. In the stateless-client systems, the application processing takes place in the server, only changes to the user in...

What Guidelines? Never Saw Them!

Richard Hockey Because of the nature of the analysis used in this study [1], no conclusion is possible. There are plenty of examples in the literature demonstrating the “ecological fallacy”. Studies such as this have very little utility other than to generate hypotheses. I tend to think that this association is a marker for greater recognition and treatment for depression. However, it’s a brave...

I went; I saw: I was never the same!